employment
Welfare reform: The coalition’s next train crash
Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms MP writes on the failures that lie at the heart of Iain Duncan Smith's Welfare Reform Bill - the coalition's next train crash.
Good news on jobs, but too soon to start celebrating
Unemployment fell and employment rose in today’s labour market statistics, and most of the growth is accounted for by full-time employee jobs. But is it a blip?
Budget 2011: Impact on jobs
The budget had very little to say about employment and unemployment, reports Richard Exell.
Labour market stats reveal high unemployment and an uncertain outlook
Today's figures show that while the recession technically ended over a year ago the period November-January 2011 saw unemployment hit its highest level since October 1994 - 2,529,000 people.
Making apprenticeships work for the economy
Today is the start of National Apprenticeship Week; Catherine McKinnell MP explains why the Apprenticeships and Skills (Public Procurement) Bill will help.
Grayling’s “ticking time bomb” – more misdirection from IDS’s DWP?
New DWP figures throw little light on household worklessness in Britain, and none whatsoever on youth unemployment, the purported subject of today’s stories.